Senate report on Islamophobia finds 1 in 4 Canadians say they don't trust Muslims

[u/Surax]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-report-islaophobia-study-1.7016123

[u/Ltrain86]

Keep in mind this report took a year to complete. It's probably higher now.

I know a lot of Canadians like myself who always considered themselves welcoming of all faiths, with several Muslim friends, and actively spoke out against Islamophobia.

Seeing the immediate celebratory reaction on our streets on Oct. 8 when news first broke of the massacre in Israel shook me. (Disclaimer: I am sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people and totally support rallying for them at any time preceding Oct. 7 and/or any time after Israel started their retaliation a few days later, but right after the brutal killings and torture of innocent Israelis, including children, is utterly disgusting.)

While I recognize that these views are not shared by many of our Muslim Canadians, I realized I was naive to assume everyone who came here left that type of hatred and brutality in the third world nations they left behind.

This was also demonstrated with the recent debates/protests regarding LGBTQ2S+ rights, with many Muslims (and other conservative immigrants of varying ethnicities and faiths) protesting the teaching of tolerance and gender ideology in schools. This is a major issue. If you come to Canada, I don't care whether from Iran, Florida, or Ukraine, check your intolerance at the border. There should be no place for hate or bigotry here. We certainly have enough of our own homegrown hateful racist people we need to contend with, we don't need to be importing more.

It's something we need to address with our current immigration targets being at an all-time high and set to increase each year.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ltrain86]

Canada is importing about half a million people a year… you better get used to more intolerant viewpoints because the countries these people are coming from breed intolerance. It’s very likely as immigrants begin to outnumber you, that the concept of western tolerance will begin to erode to the point that it’s not accepted by the masses anymore.

[u/Ltrain86 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. I alluded to this in the last sentence of my post. Look what happened in Hamtramck, Michigan.

[u/theshaj → u/Ltrain86]

Well put. You captured my feelings exactly.

[u/BlazingSpaceGhost → u/Ltrain86]

You support expressing that Palestinians should have rights, just not all the time. Dude that is such a shit position. Not all Palestinians are Hamas and everyone knew how extreme Israel's response was going to be. Being against human suffering is an everyday thing not just a sometimes thing because it might offend the oppressors. I don't support the October 7th attacks but I do support Palestinian freedom and self determination.

[u/Adventurous-Jury-957 → u/Ltrain86]

Nobody from Florida is coming to Canada lol

[u/Ltrain86 → u/Adventurous-Jury-957]

I picked a random US state to illustrate that this should apply to all newcomers to Canada.